Soap operas are very common in today’s society for example eastenders is a well known soap in London it generated the highest-rated soap episode ever, with 30.15 million viewers.
A soap opera is known as ongoing episodes of dramatic, personal relationships, sexual drama, emotional conflicts in fictional stories, which is usually broadcasted on television or radio and have to have existing entertainment for long enough in order for audiences to recognize them simply by the term meaning soap.
The longest running soap opera is Coronation Street since 1960, it began as a twice a week programme. Until 1989 it was shown generally on Mondays and Wednesdays. Since 1989, the series became twice as weekly with an additional episode airing on Fridays. In 1996 it was then increased to 4 episodes a week (Sundays, Mondays, Wednesdays & Fridays) from around 2001, extra special episodes were added and in 2002 a fifth episode was added on a regular basis.
The first soap opera was born when the manager of the Chicago (USA) radio station WGN approached a detergent company in 1930withtheaidea of a daily, serialized drama which the two central characters were a mother and her daughter which was called ‘painted dreams’ and was written by Irna and her daughter.
Personally, I think that Eastenders is well known to be watched by young teens and adults; I myself watch Eastenders and noticed that each character has a motive, and have different past and future stories.
Overall soaps are still worthwhile now a days due to the public view ratings that they get by viewers.
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